WOW! i'm as happy as I could be as a missionary here in
Andalucia!
Tuesday I had one of the best district meeting I think I've
ever had in the mission. My district is
only 4 missionaries. Muñoz and I, and 2
sister missionaries. It was just great
because the sisters are super active and everyone participated to make it go
smoothely and effectively. We also did a
really great role play that helped us all out a lot! WoW!
Lunch was great, my new pensionista is super solid! I also met some cool kids that day, 2 19 year
old members named Lizeth and Rodrigo.
They come with us almost everyday, and for the entire day! Rodrigo is blind and Lizeth is kind of his
guide. They're so rad haha.
Wednesday started out as a bummer because it was a "dry
day" which means they cut the water of the whole town so i couldnt shower,
but it was alright. haha worse for those
around me. It was a great day of
contacting EVERYONE and having lots of lessons.
Elder Muñoz is great for talking to people, and teaching with me. We're really focusing on peoples needs and
seeking the Spìrit. It's so much more
effective! We have to baptize because
these are his last 3 months and we baptize in a river here! Haha! That day we met an interesting old fella
named Octavio, and he's a Jehovah's Witness so he was interesting to talk
to! But he played some nice JW hymns on
the guitar haha which was actually pretty hilarious! What a champ.
That night when we were passing through the park we saw some
members. When the sister saw me, she got
SUPER excited! I didnt realize who she
was until she said "Chris!" They're Chris Ruiz's converts that came with
him when he visited me in April! They're
in my area! Sweet! We've gone to their house a few times and
they love me now haha they give us dinner everytime we come! Small world!
Thursday was a fairly normal day. That night we had a lesson with a kid named
Lu and it was kind of interesting! When
we came in, they offered us alcohol so we knew what we were teaching that
night! We taught the Word of Wisdom, but
man it was kind of a mess because he told us that basically tomorrow he can die
so he's gonna live life the way he wants.
So we're gonna teach the Plan of Salvation next time so he understands
the importance of living a good life. I
also met a guy with a pet monkey that day named Timoteo haha.
Friday was a good day but a bit slow because it POURED rain. Super hard!
We got absolutely soaked and the roads were all rivers haha. Rodrigo was kicking water at me while we ran
haha. That night we visited a family of
the sister missionaries because the daughters wanna get baptized but the mom
doesnt agree with it. The sisters wanted
us to go and see if we couldnt work some miracles haha. It went well but the mom kept leaving the
room and the dad talked wayyy too much.
But at the end we discovered that almost no one was reading the Book of
Mormon nor praying about it. So
obviously no one was gonna get converted.
Something sad was that night one of the sisters, Sister Hernandez had to
get extra offically transfered for some health problems, which was a bummer
because she was a super rad missionary.
Saturday we said bye to Sister Hernandez in the morning and
went throughout our day. That night we
had a great lesson on prayer with Lu and his HUGE family of like 10 people
haha. We gave it on prayer, putting God
first and church attendance. It went
really well!
Sunday was super good!
It was my first time attending church in a house-chapel. It is sooo small! It was a bummer because almost no one came to
church because Valle de Cauca had it's elections that day. After church we ate and went up the mountain
with some ward members to do a service project.
A poor brother has tarp of a roof and it was ripping through so we
donated sheet metal to help him replace it.
We also gave him a mattress we had.
It was nice to help out.
Something cool is there are these fruits with hard shells that fall from
trees and you can take them once theyre dry, empty them out and use them as
water canteens! So Muñoz and I took some
and are working on etching cool stuff on them!
Today was probably one of the best P Days ive ever had! We
started out playing Soccer with 2 kids named Camilo and Alex, 2 16 year old
members, and they lost so they had to buy us soda haha. After they took us up by their house where
you follow a river through the jungle to a cool cave area. It was beautiful, and we ate off mango trees,
and the boys swam in the cave pool. I
saw a tarántula, a cool snake, a bat and lots of weird bugs. Finally getting a jungle experience
haha. Just need to spot a panther and a
monkey and i'm set. After that, we ate
more mangos, then went to the house of Rodrigo and Lizeth to get more mangos! We're so happy haha. It was just a good day in the nature eating
fruits and messing around. Andalucia is
super rad. I'm super excited to see what
the next week brings! Love you all!
Elder Welch
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